Summary Prestige Data Services is a subsidiary of Prestige Telephone Company‚ designed to perform data processing for the telephone company and also to sell computer services to other companies and organizations. The subsidiary started operations in 1995 and has yet to experience a profitable month and by the end of 1996 its income was low enough to necessitate a report to shareholders. Mrs. Bradley thinks the company just needs more time while Mr. Rowe feels it is time to reassess Prestige
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1.) "Revenue hours" represent the key activity that drives costs at Salem Data Services. Which expenses in Exhibit 2 are variable with respect to revenue hours? Which expenses are fixed with respect to revenue hours? Variable: Wages of hourly personnel‚ Power Fixed: Rent‚ custodial services‚ computer leases‚ maintenance‚ depreciation‚ salaried staff wages‚ administration‚ sales‚ systems development‚ sales promotion‚ corporate services 2.) For each expense that is variable with respect to
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Sales Fixed cost10 Sales promotion Fixed cost11 Corporate services Fixed cost11 1 The rent is a fixed cost because SDS has to pay the rent at Salem Telephone independent how many hours they are selling. That means even if SDS sell nothing the rent has to be paid. 2 The custodial services are fixed cost because they depend on Salem Telephone ’s estimated annual cost per square foot and so they are independent from the revenue of SDS. 3 The computer equipment is a fixed cost due to the fact
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Telephone Advantages of communicating By telephone: •often easier to reach someone by phone than by trying to arrange to see them in person; more convenient for patients. •more likely to succeed in contacting someone – especially if a time / date has been agreed (few people are able to ignore the telephone and leave it ringing) •telephone conversations are‚ on average‚ shorter than face-to-face conversations as it’s easier to control the conversation and take the initiative. Disadvantages
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Fidelity: Rapid Growth of Technology by Marlene M. Maheu‚ Ph.D. The combination of the telephone and the Internet will provide more uses and conveniences than imagined just ten years ago. The telephone is likely to be the pivotal technology‚ so that people will have personal numbers that can be taken with them as they transfer from job to job‚ and home to home. It is already possible to use the telephone for receiving email messages and surfing the net. Mobile phone carriers now allow you to pick
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Describe the different features of telephone systems and how to use them The different features of telephone systems are they allow you to make external phone calls to clients and internal phone calls to fellow colleagues. There are a number of different features of telephone systems such as being able to call transfer to different members of the team by selecting from the telephone that you are transferring to. Voicemail is a feature which allows the person to leave a message for the person they
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where all or most Americans are equally likely to be found. That place is in their home‚ which is the starting place for nearly all national polling. The actual target audiences‚ referred to as "national adults"‚ are aged 18 and over‚ living in telephone households within the United States. What I don ’t understand is that Gallup excludes college students living on campus‚ armed forces living on military bases‚ prisoners‚ hospitalized people‚ and anyone else who is living institutionalized. I think
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Cell phones: A mobile phone (also known as a cellular phone‚ cell phone‚ and a hand phone) is a device that can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link while moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile phone operator‚ allowing access to the public telephone network. By contrast‚ a cordless telephone is used only within the short range of a single‚ private base station. In addition to telephony‚ modern mobile phones also support
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A telephone‚ or phone‚ is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are not in the same vicinity of each other to be heard directly. A telephone converts sound‚ typically and most efficiently the human voice‚ into electronic signals suitable for transmission via cables or other transmission media over long distances‚ and replays such signals simultaneously in audible form to its user. The wordtelephone has been adapted into the vocabulary of many
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land area. However‚ our telephone network is set up in a way which allows home office employees dial 5-digit extension numbers to connect within home office without having to access outside line. Additionally‚ each employee has a dedicated outside line that can be accessed by dialing 9 ’ as a prefix. Long distance service is available on all lines; however‚ international service is by default unavailable. International access can be granted for an employee ’s telephone line once necessary approvals
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